Chapter 6

Edit 0 6 …
Color Ch 6 PowerPoint chapt06_lecture.pdf
Black and White PowerPoint for printing chapt06_lecture B&W.pdf

6.1 Dynamics of Population of Population Growth

  • How can we describe population growth with symbols? with graphs
  • How exponential growth describes continuous change
  • What is a s-shaped growth curve and why?
  • What is sustainable yield
  • What are the two ways species respond to limits
  • Lynx Hare worksheet: what goes up must come down.pdf
  • Oh Deer activity: Oh Deer L1 modified MJS s12

6.2 Complicating the story r-BIDE

  • What are the impacts of birth rate, death rate, immigration and emigration to growth rate?
  • How do we interpret a survivorship graph? How do the three curves differ from one another?

6.3 Factors that regulate Population Growth

  • What are the types of factors that regulate population growth?
  • Provide examples of density dependent and density independent population factors

6.4 Conservation Biology

  • What are the factors that limit species and genetic diversity?
  • What are the impacts of fragmented habitats to populations?